Recently, I've been recording a lot of re-runs of NHK Special (N-Spec) on BS.

However, I watch the reruns every 10-15 minutes during my lunch, so the recordings keep piling up.

"Looks like contaminated water with tritium"

My conscience scolded me for even thinking about it for a moment, saying, "Don't be silly!" (It's true).

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Today, I finished watching "The Complete Record of the Road to Decommissioning, Nuclear Fuel Debris, and the Decision Under Pressure," which was broadcast in 2016.

Can I be clear at this point?

I thought it was much more "awesome" than "Fukushima 50.

I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude and respect for the engineers who continue to fight at the front of the accident site and for their technical capabilities.

N-Spe is really great. I pay NHK's subscription fee for "N-Spe" -- it would help my family budget if the subscription fee was a little lower.

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Ebata: "Well, you know, most people can't think of this program as 'great' or 'moving'.

Wife: "Yes, you're right. I don't know if I want to 'spontaneously watch' this show.

It's not unreasonable.

It is inevitable that engineers who have worked in the field and have both the "numbers" and the "digits" to understand the threat of radiation are a small percentage of the Japanese population.

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I was shocked when I heard that the debris extraction passage was measured to be "10 Sievert".

I'd like to see TV stations and TV programs use the same unit of measurement -- "millisievert" here, and say "10,000 millisieverts".

The following is an excerpt from Kaoru Takamura's "God's Fire (Volume 2)," which I have quoted many times in the past.

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"Listen, Sousuke. The kind of radiation that can kill a person is more than 3000 to 4000 millisieverts.

The only way to be exposed to such a huge amount of radiation all at once is to have an accident like Chernobyl, where the core melted and was exposed, or a nuclear bomb.

So I want you to think of it this way.

The permissible radiation dose line for a person to live a healthy life is 5 millisieverts per year.

One x-ray of the stomach is about 4 millisieverts. The radiation emitted from a nuclear power plant is less than 0.05 millisieverts per year.

It is definitely more than that. It may affect some people's health. That's what I mean when I say dangerous.

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A direct hit from a nuclear bomb is 11,000 millisieverts, which means that the "debris extraction" pathway mentioned in the program continues to spread radiation that can kill humans instantly.

(It may be a little better now, though).

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Anyway, regarding the government's decision to release contaminated water containing tritium, a radioactive substance that has been increasing at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, into the ocean,

Whatever the merits of that decision, as far as this case is concerned.

"I am one of the Japanese who is not even a millimeter upset about the release of contaminated water"

I will assure you about this.

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Incidentally, when the reactor containment vessel exploded (or more accurately, when I heard the radiation readings in front of the power plant),

I was a person who had packed my car with all the drinking water and food, and was ready to run away.